Florian Weimer wrote:
> * Robert Relyea:
>
>   
>>> Oh, how unfortunate.  Is it possible to disable all certificate checks?
>>>       
>
>   
>> So the question naturally arises: "why do you want this?".
>>     
>
> I want to get rid of the HTTPS confirmation dialogs for testing
> automation purposes, preferably without patching the source code.  (The
> latter is always an option, of course, but I'd rather avoid it due to
> its overhead.)
>   
Sounds to me like you just need to load the appropriately trusted certs 
into your database. That would be much easier than trying to build a 
proxy to do basically the same thing.
>   
>> I've seen proposals for this kind of gateway back in the early 90's as
>> a way of providing secure email access for browsers which did not
>> support https:.
>>     
>
> IIRC, Netscape 3 or 4 had some kind of "extend trust to proxies" option.
>   
Not when it comes to SSL;). (some of us are still around from the 
Netscape 3/4 days;).

bob

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